Love, Brooklyn

2025

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 91% · 49 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 91% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 411 411

friendship loss writer art brooklyn, new york city woman director

Plot summary

Roger, a writer, navigates complicated relationships with his ex Casey and his current lover Nicole, a newly-single mother, with the support of his best friend Alan. A modern romance set against the rapidly changing landscape of Brooklyn, New York.

Director

Rachael Holder Photo
Rachael Holder

Top cast

Roy Wood Jr. Photo
Roy Wood Jr. as Alan
Brigette Lundy-Paine Photo
Brigette Lundy-Paine as Riley
DeWanda Wise Photo
DeWanda Wise as Nicole
Arjun Gupta Photo
Arjun Gupta as Patient
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893.95 MB
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
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1.79 GB
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1 hr 37 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by peter0969 6 / 10

Decent romance dialogue-filled story

Watched at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.Despite a good chemistry between the two main leads, this is one of those mid movies and it's a shame that it's just decent. Indie romance flicks are joints I enjoy as simple settings but expressing with interesting themes, discussions and moments of romance is a good exploration of how life goes on, message to lovers, and what romance is like.Yet, this movie doesn't feel impactful. Rather the writing feels too thin, the music soundtrack wasn't great, and some of the production feels too fake which makes it feel like a theater play. This aspects are moments I didn't like.I do respect the filmmaker tho. Cause I did like how the romance was shown without stereotypes, filled with two likable characters and a good sense of cuteness and Brooklyn vibes. I just wish there was more meat to it.
Reviewed by dredayfire 8 / 10

Finally

Not since Boomerang, although a different type of movie, have I seen a good film shown from the black males perspective where he is faced with a love decision, not the female. It was also refreshing to see 3 intellectual and emotionally aware black characters interact without the usual stereotypes; no one raps, dies, or is incarcerated. Going in you have to understand this isn't a big budget project, but I dont think that really took away from the production because it wasn't trying to be more than it was. The plot and wordplay was authentic and delivered on point. Good date night movie.
Reviewed by richardcaines 9 / 10

It's Back!

It's Back!Can you feel it? That era when story and performance danced on a well crafted tapestry of music? When the cast felt like your friends from around the way. The ones you walked through life and relationships with. The ones who knew you despite what life colored you sometimes.This film brought back the familiar aroma of why I became an artist. Why black American women are so inexplicably beautiful. Why black American men are so effortlessly cool and handsome. Why emotional depth and character are so sexy in writing.It reminded me that while the human experience is raw and painfully complicated it still feels good to be one. It's like when you can taste the sun and hold the rain.The performances in this film are so real it feels like you are a fly on the wall or a building in Brooklyn rather, watching Roger and his friends experience life.Each character has their own moment. A moment that tells us their life and what they are living through and learning.We watch as Casey (Nicole Beharie) grapples with her emotions as she realizes her own complicated being.While Roger (Andre Holland) owns his inability to catch and release both what he loves and needs.Nicole (DeWanda Wise) exposes her emotional and mental dilemma of love after love. Trying not to drown in the guilt of trying to have a life as an adult while making sure her daughter Ally is not left to wade through her grief alone. Her daughter, Ally (Cadence Reese), finding her way through grief at the lose of her father and feeling the guilt growing attached to someone else.Roger's friend Allen (Roy Jones Jr.), fighting the inertia of his life and marriage feeling mundane. His wife Beth (Saycon Sengbloh), seeing her husband struggle but letting him have his space to figure it out but still love him at the same time without resentment.Riley (Jack Haven) Casey's assistant at the gallery tells us how her life is going and where she is in the world.Lorna, (Cassandra Freeman) with her self involved grandiose diatribe of her travels tells us how little room there is for anyone else's existence within her world.Even Adele (Cara Ptterson) shows us who she is observing a good man but knowing her place within his story and what that means in her life.I know no work is perfect but this is near pitch perfect. With excellent work from all involved. Paul Zimmerman gave us a script that allows beautiful actors a place to play with Rachael Holder's elegant direction and a delicious soundtrack for all of it to marinate in.Thank you all for bringing it back! 9/10stars!
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